Winter Institute 2024: Bookselling Activists Call for Words and Deeds

At the ABA Community Forum, held at Winter Institute 2024 in Cincinnati on February 14, a developing coalition of booksellers spoke on behalf of Palestinians under fire in Gaza and advocated for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
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DOJ Filing Calls Apple "Ringmaster" of E-Book Pricing Rise

The gist: "Apple knew that the plan it was proposing involved a ‘dramatic business change’ for publisher defendants." Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House and Foyles triumph at Bookseller Industry Awards

Random House has won the Publisher of the Year accolade at the Bookseller Industry Awards 2013,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin signs A Girl Called Jack

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dubai Arabic E-bookseller Rufoof Attracts 100,000 Users

Dubai's Rufoof e-bookseller offers 5,000 titles in Arabic and has attracted 100,000 users, 50% from Saudi Arabia, starting with free Islamic titles. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Argosy's Richmond wins bookselling award

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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World’s Press Calls for Withdrawal of Proposed Royal Charter

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have appealed to the British government to rethink statutory regulation that threatens more than 300 years of press freedom in the UK. In a letter to Prim ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The value of the written word

Ray Bradbury imagined a world without the printed word, a universe where firemen started fires instead of stopped them, in a quest to burn forbidden books - till one of them started questioning why. Incidentally, the act of burning books is called "biblioclasm" or "libricide", and here's your... Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2013-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Booksellers Are Faring After Going Online-Only

Over the past five years, rent hikes and competition from big-box retailers and online discounters have contributed to bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing their shops and moving their operations online. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books on Call on the road

Bookstores may be closing right and left under the ebook onslaught, but a sort of traveling bookstore came back to life earlier this month with the launch of Books on Call NYC.The company, which sells books at author readings and other events, is the successor to Mobile Libris, which shut down... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2013-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hudson Booksellers opens online store, expands beyond overpriced sundries

Is it not enough to make a killing selling $5 bottles of Dasani and two-pill packs of Tylenol? Hudson Booksellers, from the folks behind those fine Hudson News airport establishments, has begun peddling ebooks and book books online. The site, which appears to be (at least partially) powered by... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2013-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VIDEO: 'N-word' sparks censorship debate

A publisher in Germany is to remove the offensive 'n-word' from one of its children's books, following a complaint from a parent. Continue reading at BBC World

[ BBC World | 2013-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agents call for licensing model shift

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Top German Booksellers + Bertelsmann + Telekom = Mega E-book Project

This Friday, booksellers Thalia, Weltbild, Hugendubel, as well as Bertelsmann and Deutsche Telekom, promise to announce a "really big new project in ebooks and e-reading." Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Auctioning Borders’ Old Signage to Help Booksellers in Need

Formerly part of Borders, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation has given some $4.1 million to 2,700 individuals since 1996. Now, they're auctioning Borders' old signage. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones to launch bookselling certificate

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Indie booksellers in anti-trust dream over Kindle

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[ Crains New York | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Killing the “Pay First, Read Later” E-bookselling Model

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling author riles many, calling libraries 'no longer relevant'

British writer Terry Deary, author of the 'Horrible Histories' children's series, says that libraries have 'had their day' and that there is no 'entitlement to read books for free.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Word-of-Mouth: Good Books or Just Great Books?

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Joseph-Beth Booksellers Finds New Path

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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